"PicturePerfect is one of the best videos I've seen on how girls and women are represented and influenced by popular media." Tamara Sobel, Girls, Women + Media Project A compelling documentary that explores and challenges stereotypical and distorted media images of girls and women. Covering various forms of media, including TV, music, film and advertising, and by weaving together interviews, media images, cut-away footage, text, music, and sound, this documentary artfully challenges and depicts the messages that women and girls are sent daily in our media-saturated culture. It will prompt discussion around many issues: self esteem and identity, the interplay of race and ethnicity, cosmetics, body image, dieting, eating disorders, Barbie dolls - and more. Lively and engaging, this program empowers young women viewers to become critical consumers of mass culture with the ability to recognize the unrealistic standards that media messages can impose on them.
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